Christopher Dolan, the lawyer for the family of Jahi McMath, said he’s seeking the order because Children’s Hospital Oakland officials want to remove Jahi from life support soon but haven’t specified a specific time.

Jahi’s mother, Nailah Winkfield, fighting back tears Thursday night, said she wants the hospital to keep Jahi alive at least through Christmas, saying “I don’t want to have my Christmas every year remind me of her being taken off a ventilator.”

Omari Sealey, Jahi’s uncle, said the family’s meeting with Children’s Hospital officials at 5 p.m. Thursday didn’t go as the family hoped.

Sealey said Dr. David Durand, the hospital’s chief of pediatrics, told the family at the meeting that Jahi is “dead dead dead.”

Dolan said he will seek the injunction from a judge in Alameda County Superior Court but a time and courtroom haven’t yet been determined.

Dolan said the hospital also has denied the family’s request for Jahi’s complete medical records and their request to have an outside medical expert make an independent determination as to whether she is brain dead.

According to Sealey, Jahi, an eighth-grade student at the E.C. Reems Academy of Technology and Arts in Oakland, went to Children’s Hospital on Dec. 9 to have her tonsils removed to cure a sleep apnea problem that made it difficult for her to sleep.

But he said Jahi suffered a large amount of bleeding after the surgery, which had been expected to be routine, and eventually went into cardiac arrest and was declared brain dead on Dec. 12.

Dolan said the hospital had planned to remove Jahi from life support on Tuesday but postponed that action after he sent hospital officials a letter asking that they cease from doing so.

Children’s Hospital officials have said they can’t disclose any of the details of Jahi’s case because her family has asked the hospital not to disclose them to the news media.